Alerts

2012

New York, April 4, 2012--Police in eastern Nepal must fully
investigate Tuesday night's murder of a TV and newspaper reporter and determine
whether the motive was related to his journalism, the Committee to Protect
Journalists said today.

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New York, April 4, 2012--The Committee to Protect Journalists
condemns the Palestinian Authority's recent anti-press actions in which one
journalist was detained for a week for reporting on alleged corruption and
spying and a second was questioned over a critical article and his posts on
social media. These actions occurred despite the Authority's recent
announcement of a press freedom award that it claimed would reward "quality and
daring material."

New York, April 2, 2012--The Committee to Protect Journalists
is concerned by Chinese authorities' recent clampdown on the Internet after
rumors circulated about politician Bo Xilai's
dismissal from the Communist Party leadership in
Chongqing. In recent days, authorities have shut down several microblog
sites and detained and targeted Internet users.

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New York, April 2, 2012--A prominent Syrian videographer who
ran the media center in Baba Amr where two foreign journalists were killed in
February has been detained since Wednesday, according to news
reports.

Ali Mahmoud Othman was initially held at a military intelligence unit in Aleppo and is believed to have been tortured, Paul Conroy, a photographer for The Sunday Times, said in an interview with the U.K.'s Channel 4. Activists were cited in news reports giving the same information. Conroy and other reports said Othman was transferred to Damascus over the weekend.

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New York, April 2, 2012--A Ugandan reporter who was knocked off
a motorcycle by a police tow truck on Saturday while covering the arrest of
opposition leader Kizza Besigye has been hospitalized for his injuries,
according to local journalists. He was the sixth journalist attacked
by security forces in the last 10 days, according to research
by the Committee to Protect Journalists.

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New
York, April 2, 2012--The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes a recent decision by a Peruvian appeals
court to overturn the criminal defamation conviction against a journalist who
reported on local corruption.

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New York, March 30, 2012--The Committee to Protect
Journalists condemns attacks and threats against several journalists covering the aftermath of the March 22 military coup in
Mali that ousted President Amadou Toumani Touré.

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New York, March 30, 2012--Authorities in Chongqing must
clarify the status of a journalist who reports say was secretly sentenced to
prison in 2010 for criticizing a government official in a personal blog, the
Committee to Protect Journalists said today. CPJ has not been able to
independently confirm the journalist's jail sentence or his whereabouts.

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New
York, March 30, 2012--Authorities must conduct a thorough and effective
investigation into the attack on the publisher of a Latvian news website that
had run a number of sensitive stories, the Committee to Protect Journalists
said today.